Category Archives: Olympus

New Olympus lenses

These are the new Olympus lenses that will be announced in the next few weeks: Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 25 mm f/1.8: 46mm filter size 0.25m minimum focusing distance will be available in black and silver finish the price in Japan will be ¥35,000 (around $330) accessories: new lens cap BCL-0980 and macro converter MCON-P02 Olympus EZ M.ZUIKO […]

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Two new lenses coming from Olympus: 25mm f/1.8 and 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 EZ ED

In addition to the OMD E-M10 camera, Olympus is also rumored to announce two new lenses:

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Olympus OMD E-M10 camera rumored specifications

The first set of rumored Olympus OMD E-M10 specifications is already online:

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Olympus may go back to producing DSLR cameras if mirrorless sales continue to tank

Olympus E-620

In a recent interview with AmateurPhotographer at CES, Toshi Terada from Olympus confirmed that they may go back to producing DSLR cameras one day: “Nobody knows 10 years away… once we can get a very nice share [in mirrorless] we may expand the business to DSLR again, but at this moment we are just concentrating on […]

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Olympus OMD E-M10 camera to be announced soon

The Indonesian government agency has a registration for a new Olympus OMD E-M10 camera. The official announcement will most likely be during the CES show in early January (Las Vegas) or during the CP+ show in Japan in early February. Via Digicame-info

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2014 Photo Rumors Recap & Happy Holidays

I will have limited Internet connectivity during the next few days and will be enjoying the holidays, I hope you will enjoy yours too. Here is a quick recap of some of the latest rumors from around the Web: In a recent DC.Watch interview, Sugita Mr. Yukihiko from Olympus Imaging Development Division said that the company will focus […]

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The latest patents from Canon, Olympus and Konica Minolta

Canon filed a new patent in Japan for a 200-400mm f/4 and 280-560mm f/5.6 lenses with built-in teleconverter and image stabilization.

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Tamron 10mm f/2.8 fisheye lens and other patents from Konica-Minolta, Olympus and Sony

Tamron’s latest patent is for a 10mm f/2.8 and a 10mm f/1.8 fisheye lenses for APS-C based DSLR cameras.

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